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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Dell Wants Me to Plant A Tree

I was looking at new laptops on the Dell website today and noticed something interesting. Perhaps Al Gore and the Live Earth Concerts are having an impact. When you select Customize you’re taken through many pages of options including the two below.

It will be interesting to see how long Dell continues this effort. I really hope they eventually publish the results of this promotion.

And guess what? No purchase necessary!

"Dell now makes it easy to help protect the Earth’s climateby offering anyone in the U.S. and Europe the opportunity tooffset the CO2 emissions related to the use of an extendedselection of IT products. Participants can also help offsetthe total one-year carbon impact of the average citizen.Click hereto make a donation and plant a tree today. "